About December 6
December 6, 2024 is the 341st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 25 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Sagittarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 54 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 6
- 1060 –Béla I of Hungary is crowned king of Hungary.
- 1240 –Mongol invasion of Rus': Kiev under Danylo of Halych and Voivode Dmytro falls to the Mongols under Batu Khan.
- 1648 –Colonel Pride of the New Model Army purges the Long Parliament of MPs sympathetic to King Charles I of England, in order for the King’s trial to go ahead; came to be known as “Pride’s Purge”.
- 1745 –Charles Edward Stuart’s army begins retreat during the second Jacobite Rising.
- 1877 –The first edition of the Washington Post is published.
- 1877 –Thomas Edison, using his new phonograph, makes one of the earliest recordings of a human voice, reciting “Mary Had a Little Lamb”.
- 1916 –World War I: The Central Powers capture Bucharest.
- 1917 –Halifax Explosion: In Canada, a munitions explosion kills more than 1,900 people and destroys part of the City of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
- 1917 –World War I: USS Jacob Jones is the first American destroyer to be sunk by enemy action when it is torpedoed by German submarine ship SM.
- 1928 –The government of Colombia sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.
- 1947 –The Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated.
- 1969 –Meredith Hunter is killed by the Hells Angels during a The Rolling Stones’s concert at the Altamont Speedway in California.
- 1975 –Balcombe Street Siege: An IRA Active Service Unit takes a couple hostage in Balcombe Street, London.
- 1978 –Spain approves its latest constitution in a referendum.
- 1988 –The Australian Capital Territory is granted self-government.
- 1989 –The École Polytechnique Massacre (or Montreal Massacre): Marc Lépine, an anti-feminist gunman, murders 14 young women at the École Polytechnique in Montreal.
- 1991 –In Croatia, forces of the Yugoslav People’s Army bombard Dubrovnik after laying siege to the city since May.
- 2001 –The Canadian province of Newfoundland is renamed Newfoundland and Labrador.
- 2006 –NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.
- 2008 –The 2008 Greek riots break out upon the killing of a 15-year-old boy, Alexandros Grigoropoulos, by a police officer.
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